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l 2 w 4 1 9 n RESILIENT SUPPORT Filed July 26. 1923 x E. L. ROBERT! Aug 24 1926 PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. ROBERTI, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Application filed July 26, 1923.

My invention relates to resilient supporting construction for .furniture, such as chairs, lounges, davenports, and other like pieces of furniture.

" Furniture springs such as are used in seats for supporting a set of spiral compression springssuch as are used in a furniture seat, including means to prevent tearing of said bottom under tension.

Other objects and advantages will be made evident hereinafter.

Referring to the drawing which is for illustrative purposes only,

Fig. 1 is a transverse vertical section of a chair including my resilient seat supporting construction taken on line 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of said chair taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of said chair taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary dctall section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2 illustrating the spring connecting means for connecting the fabric seat bottom to the furniture frame.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of my support broken away at one corner to illustrate the means for securing the ends of the wire frame to the chair frame.

Fig. 6 is a plan view-of the wire frame for taking the pull of the springs oil the fabric bottom when the fabric stretches sufiici'ently; and

Fi 7 is afragmentary front View of the seat frame showing the front tacked edge of the canvas member.

In the drawing 1 indicates a substantially rectangular frame supported on legs 2; 3 indicates a seat spring shown as formed of a set of usual spiral compression springs; 4 a seat cushion; 5 a back; and 6 the arms of an upholstered chair. A sheet 7 extends Serial .No. 653,906.

over the spring 3 and is as shown secured at 1ts edges to the upper edge of the frame 1 for holding said spring within said frame.

My invention, as applied to a seat, includes a sheet or webof fabric such as can vas 10 secured at its forward edge directly to the upper edge of the front member of frame 1, as by tacks 11, and resiliently connected at its rear edge and side edges respectively to the rear and side members of said frame by springs 12. A U-shaped reinforcing wire frame 13 having its ends let bent inwardly at right angles is sewed within the rear and side edges of the sheet 10 by overlapping said edges around said frame and securing said edges to the sheet by a row of stitching 15, or otherwise as may :be desired, while the bentends 14: rest upon and are non-resiliently secured to the upper edge of the front member of frame 1 by staples 16, or otherwise as may be desired. Eyelets 1-7 are secured within the overlapping rear and side edges of the sheet 10 inside of the wire frame 13, through which eyes are hooked the inner hooked ends 18 of springs 12, the outer hooked ends 19 of said supporting the springs 3, and also the cushion 4, if desired. I

Any stretching of the sheet due to excessive weight upon the seat 4: will cause the eyelets 17 to be drawn by the hooked ends 18 of the springs 12 against the inner side of the Wire 13, whereby the strain on the sheet 10 is then taken by said wire frame, thus preventing tearing of the sheet.

I claim as my invention:

In combination with a chair frame, or the like, a supporting member consisting of a sheet of fabric having its front edge secured directly to said frame, spring members connecting the remaining edges of said fabric resiliently to said frame, and a spring cushion resting on said supporting member secured to said frame independentlyof said supporting member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 20th dayof July, 1923.

EDWARD L. ROBERTI. 

